South Carolina football fans probably already have the biggest games of the 2018 season circled in their minds – Sept. 8 against Georgia and Nov. 24 against Clemson, but ESPN.com has other ideas.

The website released its biggest predicted matchups of the season for each of its way-too-early preseason Top 25 team, and for the No. 25 Gamecocks, it chose a home game against Missouri on Oct. 6.

“At home, in the middle of the season before a stretch run that will include Tennessee, Florida and Clemson, South Carolina needs to find a way to beat Missouri. The matchup of Drew Lock and Jake Bentley at quarterback will be appointment television with two of the league's best going head-to-head,” ESPN.com’s Alex Scarborough wrote in explaining the choice.

It seems like fair reasoning, but if facing the Tigers, who were 7-6 overall and 4-4 in the SEC last year, is the measuring stick for the season then it won’t be the kind of year many South Carolina fans are expecting.